All Blog Posts Tagged 'network' (58)

If you are following the battle of the short messaging systems, you might think it is a one-dimensional contest between the systems that maintain your chat history for all time – like Twitter and Facebook – and the so-called disappearing messengers – like Snapchat – where messages vanish after being read. Each new application stakes out a place somewhere along this timeline between zero and infinity. Chat systems rush to add ephemeral features and email systems for the enterprise add more…

Healthcare is once again in the headlines, although the focus isn’t on healthcare itself, but rather the ability of today’s enterprises to protect their customers’ sensitive information. The severity of breaches such as the one at Anthem, which exposed an estimated 80 million records, and others that are sure to follow, cannot be overstated. They are devastating not only because of the magnitude of the data loss and the financial impact, but in the case of stolen medical information, the…

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is having an enormous impact on business. This phenomenon is completely reinventing the way businesses operate. It is bringing productivity and competitiveness to higher levels along with opening up many doors to new and exciting opportunities. Companies that are more recently harnessing the power of IoE are excited to realize that it will impact their overall business strategy, not just their technology.

I am old enough to be of the generation that grew up with vinyl. Unlike the romantics of today I remember the scratches, the arguments over borrowing my brother's records, putting them on my worn and generally abused record player and the reality that after the first few plays, even with that brand new stylus, the quality degraded to that “warm” or, in reality, muffled sound that I remember. The revival we see today is a choice, largely based on the sentimental feelings that we tend to…

It’s impossible to miss the proliferation of screens in our society. Take a look around the next time you’re on public transit, at a café or on a plane: The vast majority of people you’ll see are surfing the web, tapping out an email, playing mobile games or watching Game of Thrones on tablets and smartphones. Content creators are banking on the public’s continued desire to be able to access anything, from books to movies, while mobile. So much so, that the big trends at…

Enterprise collaboration is booming, and companies are seeking ways to enable better communication with employees and customers. As social business continues to mature, companies are realizing the many bottom line benefits that enterprise social networks deliver, including bridging organizational silos and improving workflow and collaboration.

Each day cyber criminals are leveraging new ways to compromise and disrupt company networks resulting in significant losses in business revenue, customer loyalty and trust in Internet services and ecommerce. One such disruption, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, continues to make headlines as one of the most persistent cybersecurity threats, with often detrimental results for victims.

While DDoS attacks have been a mainstay for cybercriminals for more than a decade, the…

Virtualization has changed the world of datacenter infrastructure. It has helped IT groups reduce the hardware footprint in their datacenters, avoid CapEx and reduced OpEx by decoupling the workload from the hardware, and enabled consolidation of workloads. With virtualization, the compute nodes can now be provisioned in a matter of seconds and has received great acceptance. Although virtualization is a well-known concept in data centers, and they tend to focus on the compute side of the…

We live in an age of ubiquitous social networks. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn are the social powerhouses for our generation, serving as the hub for how we share photos, videos and news with friends and how we network professionally. These companies have nearly perfected the formula that drives users to connect with them every day, and as their user bases grow so too does the value of these companies.

Although the biggest social networks have touched over a billion people…

If you’re reading this article, chances are that your company is about to embark on idea generation for wearables and IoT or you’re already knee deep in the process. This article provides a helpful framework to systematically develop the next billion dollar wearable…

Network Access and Monitoring appliances, or what the market has now christened Network Packet Brokers (NPBs), is currently the hottest sector of the network appliance market since the dot com explosion of the late 1990s. These solutions gather and aggregate network traffic from switch SPAN ports or network TAPs and then manipulate or copy that traffic to enable the more efficient use of security and performance tools – inline and/or passive. In short, they make existing security and…

Businesses, jobs and workplaces are changing faster than ever before. Skills which were considered "hot" until yesterday are no longer considered even special today. With the change in business due to competition and customers expectations soaring high; today the employees are evaluated on many additional parameters they aren’t even aware of. Fact is employees are constantly being observed to check if they have the critical yet unwritten "virtues" to fit into the new roles &…

It’s happening all around us -- and we don’t even realize it. The next big wave in server innovation is changing computing and it’s not just about the move to the cloud. In fact, the shift to centralized cloud computing is actually causing this change to happen faster. This change is happening at the edge of the network and not the core of the data center; a shift that’s evident from the way we are interacting with and controlling devices, to how we’re taking advantage of the cloud,…

When Cristiano Ronaldo, the reigning world player of the year, set up fellow Portuguese national team player Varela for the equalizing goal Sunday in the final seconds, it not only was a dagger through the heart of every US soccer fan, but a blow to every network administrator in America.By not clinching a spot in the next round with a win on Sunday, interest in Thursday’s final Group match with Germany will only be intensified which translates to more viewers. However, since Thursday’s big…

Business owners need to take care about lot of things in their routine work. These jam-packed schedules sometimes result in letting some network security measures fail due to certain reasons. Some of these network security norms may appear needless in a hectic day or phase of growth for the business. However, if the mis-configured security control remains without any solution for a longer term, there is a high risk of taking advantage by anyone with a despicable intention.

Network monitoring is utilized for the purpose of overseeing the operation of a computer network using specialized management software tools. It is critical for debugging, monitoring performance and enforcing security compliance in all networked environments. Network monitoring systems are tasked with ensuring the availability and performance of computers and network services, and can detect and report on failures of devices or connections.

Over the past five years, the phrase, “bring your own device,” has caused little more than heartache for those charged with maintaining connectivity, data security, and access control across networks large and small. The explosive and pervasive nature of mobile devices on the backs of iOS and Android has led to work environments having to adapt quickly to the challenge of personal devices impacting business security. In many cases, these same smartphones and tablets will end up containing…

As planned, Microsoft ended support for its 12-year-old Windows XP operating system on April 8, 2014. This means that XP customers will no longer receive security updates or tech support from Microsoft. As a Windows component, all versions of Internet Explorer for XP also became unsupported.

This is a potential problem for companies because of the surprisingly high number of XP machines out there. Gartner estimates that 20 percent of business endpoints still run XP, and one-third of…

Any company trying to compete must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee --Jack Welch

People are the most valuable asset of any organization. There could be buildings, machines, assets worth millions of dollars but if the right talent is not available, organizations could never scale the pinnacle of success.“Talent shortages” takes priority over “operational execution” reveals a recent survey involving 780 CEOs. Today, any initiative…